
Collection Highlights
Free entry, donations appreciated
Canterbury Museum Pop-Up, 66 Gloucester Street
Visit the Canterbury Museum Pop-Up for collection highlights and visitor favourites while the main Museum is being redeveloped.

Tails from the Coasts
Free
Canterbury Museum Pop-Up
Enter a fascinating world of bearcats that smell of popcorn, fish that can climb trees and the world’s only venomous primate.

Adventurous Artist: Margaret Stoddart
Free
Botanic Gardens Kiosk, central Christchurch
Canterbury artist Margaret Stoddart went on two adventures to the Chatham Islands.

The Canterbury Potters Association 53rd Annual Exhibition
Free
Ō Papa Gallery, CoCA, 66 Gloucester Street
Buy a beautiful piece of pottery to take home.

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026
Free
Canterbury Museum Pop-Up
The latest Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition comes to Christchurch just weeks after opening at the Natural History Museum in London.